HOUSE AND GARDEN 
June, 
1914 
503 
How Good 
is YOUR 
Refrigerator? 
In order that you may 
decide for yourself let 
us ask you these all 
important questions: 
Is it Sanitary? 
Does it have linings that 
are crackless and easily 
cleaned? Is the interior free 
from ledges and corners that 
collect dirt ? Does melted 
ice drain off entirely ? 
Is it Efficient? 
Does it keep food in perfect 
condition ? Does food re¬ 
main free from other food 
odors ? 
Is it Economical? 
Are your ice bills exorbi¬ 
tant ? Is maximum refri¬ 
geration obtained from the 
ice consumed ? 
Your refrigerator should enable you to an¬ 
swer every one of these questions satisfac¬ 
torily. But if it does not, you owe it to your¬ 
self to let us show you a GOOD refrigerator 
that does. Every size and shape is repre¬ 
sented to meet everypractical requirement. 
Our stock includes these prominent makes: 
Eddy—Premier— Supreme 
Catalogs and prices by mail if desired 
JeWIS8lQpEH 
45th Street and 6th Ave.,NewYork 
OF COURSE! 
“The Wood 
Eternal.” 
Tlndale Music Cabinets 
DECIDEDLY ITDECORATIVE 
And the idea! means of keeping music. Every 
copy always at hand when wanted. 
Style E (illustrated) is $29 in mahogany, 
or $25 in Fumed Oak. WideBvariety of 
styles and sizes $15 to $95. 
Write today for Design Book No. 6. 
TIN DALE CABINET CO. 
1 W. 34th St., New York 
white muslin, with trailing vines sten¬ 
ciled on in green. 
In the matter of material, it is best to 
use a good grade, even if we have to 
make our building slightly smaller, and it 
is particularly wise to build those parts 
near the ground of masonry instead of 
wood. Concrete piers may be used for 
the foundations in place of wooden posts, 
and, if possible, it is better to use a solid 
concrete wall than to fill between the 
piers with lattice. The walls may be 
covered with novelty siding, clapboards, 
shingles or stucco. And each in order 
costs a little more than the one before. 
But, then, good shingles with creosote 
stain last much longer than the first- 
mentioned materials, and stucco is prac¬ 
tically everlasting. 
There is one small item of materials 
which is always slighted in building a 
house either for summer or winter, and 
that is insulation. If people would only 
invest a few extra dollars in proper in¬ 
sulation for their walls the money would 
be returned an hundredfold in the way 
of comfort and pleasure of living. The 
entire cost of insulation is very slight, yet 
it is most effective of all the materials 
which go into a building. It would be a 
matter of small expense, for example, to 
lay over the roof boards before shingling 
two or three layers of insulating quilt or 
fiber lining. These two materials are 
used in building refrigerators. The first 
is a layer of sea grass between paper 
covers, and comes in large rolls thor¬ 
oughly quilted. The second is made in 
the same way, but the filling is hemp 
fiber. When laid on the roof under the 
shingles heat of summer and cold of win¬ 
ter are both kept out effectually. If we 
then provide small windows or openings 
under the eaves to permit circulation of 
air there will be a perceptible increase in 
comfort of living. 
Mineral wool is excellent for use. It is 
not expensive, and may be put between 
all the outside walls of the house, and 
the rafters as well, at slight expense. 
Then, if the exterior of the house is cov¬ 
ered with stucco, that is one more safe¬ 
guard against heat. 
There is one thing about the use of 
concrete at the seashore which should be 
pointed out here, and that is the relative 
cost — as compared with its use inland. 
Good concrete for building is made up 
of one part cement to from four to five 
parts of sand and gravel. This grit 
should be sharp and clean, or free from 
loam But it should not be too fine. 
Sand and gravel from the beach is gen¬ 
erally thoroughly washed and free from 
loam, and if it is coarse enough will 
make the best kind of concrete or stucco. 
So that under suitable conditions its use 
at the seashore is a real economy, par¬ 
ticularly when it is convenient to bring 
cement to the site by boat. 
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“ I’m always sure of uniform 
quality in Glidden’s Endur¬ 
ance Wood Stains — no 
matter which of the sixteen 
colors I’m using.” 
L) EAUTY and 
permanence 
are what you de¬ 
mand of interior 
wood finishings. 
ULidden s 
Endurance 
Wood Stains 
accentuate the very best there 
is in your woodwork—they 
bring out the grain — they 
give it a rich, mellow tone— 
they make it a thingof beauty. 
Glidden Stains give 
beauty and service 
They penetrate deep into the 
wood, and are. therefore, the 
most fadeproof and durable, 
under varying conditions of 
temperature, humidity or sun¬ 
light. 
Write for the excel lent booklets that 
describe other Glidden products: 
M. P. Durable Floor Varnish 
M. P. Durable Interior Varnish 
M. P. Durable Exterior Varnish 
Velvet White Enamel (egg-shell fin.) 
Superior White Enamel (gloss finish) 
Waterproof Flat Finishes 
The Glidden Varnish Co. 
Quality Varnish Makers 
10602 Madison Avf.nue N. W. 
Cleveland, Ohio 
F\ctor i es: Cleveland Toronto 
I am a Horse-Radish Root 
one year old, two feet tall and weigh six pounds. 
My value at wholesale in New York market is 30 
cents in quick demand at 5 cents per pound. I 
occupied a space of 20 inches in the row and was 
four feet from adjoining rows, therefore, one acre 
would contain 6,000 of my kind of wholesale cash 
value of $1,800. During the past 20 years my 
value has been as low as 1 cent per pound, and 
as high as 15 cents per pound. 100 Horae 
Radish Root Sets with full information 
how to cultivate and market Horse-Radish V * 
Jffjk Peach Trees, 10 cts. Pear Trees, 15 cts. 
M])m Apple Trees, 15 cts. 
' 3-Year Old Grape Vines, 5 cts. 
Any quality while they last. These are large thrifty Trees 
and Grape Vines of best quality and varieties, now in best 
condition for planting. We do not wish to grow them another 
vear, also the ground space they occupy is required for grow¬ 
ing Horse-Radish. VALLEY FARM CO., Newburgh, N. Y. 
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